Schedule of Classes and Assignments Spring 2017

We'll try to stick to this schedule but there's always the possibility that something might change. Stay tuned to the announcements on the main class page for updates.

Syllabus

Week of	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
January 15 Week 1	MLK Day	Introduction and Syllabus Around the room introductions Example Assignments from 2015: Assignment 1 Outcast Vane Fetch Ray Project Night Dwellers A Walk In Another's Life The Aleph Through The Looking Glass First assignment (2D) Teams for the first assignment: Xiaoguang Zhu xiaoguaz, Anna Henson ahenson Miles Peyton mpeyton, Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb Ricardo Tucker rftucker, Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh, Katherine Tsai kwtsai, Mercedes Reyes mreyes, Orianna Green ogreen Minsun Park minsunp, Catherine Luo catheril Louise Zhang fz2, Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Rhyse McLean rmclean, Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Katherine Cao katheric, Andrew Edwards aeedward Ariana Daly acdaly, Femi Olukoya oolukoya Animations: Phil Mulloy Intolerance Principles of Animation video Principles of Animation (Spencer) First team meetings for Assignment 1 Assignment 1 (2D Animation) out
January 22 Week 2	Animations Indelible AAT 2003 YouTube Smash Up Descent Embroidered Zoetrope After Effects Demo in CFA 317 (Brittany) Work time otherwise	Animations: Rabbit (Run Wrake) 7001 by Natasa Teofilovic The Street Caroline Leaf On Loop Christine Hooper Work time otherwise
January 29 Week 3	Animations: Muto It's a Date Individual project reviews with instructors or TAs (starting after the animations which we'll call 0:00) Jessica 0:00 Xiaoguang Zhu xiaoguaz, Anna Henson ahenson 0:20 Miles Peyton mpeyton, Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb 0:40 Louise Zhang fz2, Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Jim 0:00 Mercedes Reyes mreyes, Orianna Green ogreen 0:20 Ariana Daly acdaly, Femi Olukoya oolukoya Spencer 0:00 Rhyse McLean rmclean, Rhea Nayyar rnayyar 0:20 Katherine Cao katheric, Andrew Edwards aeedward Brittany 0:00 Katherine Tsai kwtsai, Ricardo Tucker rftucker, Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh 0:20 Minsun Park minsunp, Catherine Luo catheril Work time otherwise	Animations: Gulp. The world's largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8 Aardman Making of Gulp Dot. The World's smallest stop-motion character shot on a Nokia N8 Making of Dot Premiere demo (Brittany) Preparing video for Vimeo (Brittany) Work time otherwise Readings: The process of effective critiques. Jana Whittington, Educator's Forum, SIGGRAPH 2003.
February 5 Week 4	Assignment 1 (2D Animation) due (uploaded to box) Critique Assignment 1 (in two sessions) Group 1: 8:30 Xiaoguang Zhu xiaoguaz, Anna Henson ahenson Ricardo Tucker rftucker, Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh, Katherine Tsai kwtsai, Minsun Park minsunp, Catherine Luo catheril Rhyse McLean rmclean, Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Miles Peyton mpeyton, Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb Group 2: 9:45 Mercedes Reyes mreyes, Orianna Green ogreen Louise Zhang fz2, Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Katherine Cao katheric, Andrew Edwards aeedward Ariana Daly acdaly, Femi Olukoya oolukoya Work time otherwise	Assignment 2 (Puppeteering) out Examples of Assignment 2 Urvogel Paper Fight Sea Bed The Path I Chose A Pixel in Motion Assignment 2 Teams Rhyse McLean - Anna Henson - Orianna Green Rhea Nayyar - Xiaoguang (Gary) Zhu Andrew Edwards - Ricardo Tucker Katherine Cao - Yuanzhou Ha Femi Olukoya Ariana Daly - Louise Zhang Katrina Chaudoin - Minsun Park Catherine Luo - Miles Peyton Mercedes Reyes - Jessica Medenbach Demo of maquettes (Jim) Animations: Making of Paranorman Machine with Wishbone Arthur Ganson Ian Ingram Work time otherwise
February 12 Week 5	Animations: Owl and Mouse by Emma J. Noble Josephine and the Roach by Jonathan Langager Work time otherwise	Animations: Jim Henson UMBC political cartoon digital puppet Making of: UMBC political cartoon digital puppet Using mocap to puppet Demo of 3D scanner (Jessica) Structure.io scanner Getting Started Guide 123D Catch Work time otherwise Jim out
February 19 Week 6	Animation: Forms Quayola and Memo Akten unnamed soundsculpture Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer Making of unnamed soundsculpture Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer Mocap Experiments Paul Van Opdenbosch Contours in Motion - With Data Points Paul Van Opdenbosch Individual project reviews (with instructors or TAs) Jessica 0:00 Mercedes Reyes - Jessica Medenbach 0:20 Rhea Nayyar - Xiaoguang (Gary) Zhu 0:40 Katherine Cao - Yuanzhou Ha Jim 0:00 Andrew Edwards - Ricardo Tucker 0:20 Rhyse McLean - Anna Henson - Orianna Green Spencer 0:00 Femi Olukoya 0:20 Ariana Daly - Louise Zhang Brittany 0:00 Katrina Chaudoin - Minsun Park 0:20 Catherine Luo - Miles Peyton Work time otherwise	Meet in CFA classroom at 8:30am as usual. Animations Climb Moonbaby Field trip for Mocap Lab Demo (Justin Macey maceymade@aol.com) Field trip for Dome Demo (Hanbyul Joo hanbyulj@cs.cmu.edu) Mocap Database and a few animations made with data from the lab: Motion Capture Database Animalz Mo Mahler 3 Rooms Mo Mahler Material from the Dome: Collected Data from the Dome New code-base for detecting keypoints on multiple people from live video Example of live animation work from webcams Group 1 (Mocap lab first, dome second) Andrew Edwards - Ricardo Tucker Katherine Cao - Yuanzhou Ha Mercedes Reyes - Jessica Medenbach Ariana Daly - Louise Zhang Katrina Chaudoin - Minsun Park Group 2 (Dome first, mocap lab second) Rhyse McLean - Anna Henson - Orianna Green Rhea Nayyar - Xiaoguang (Gary) Zhu Catherine Luo - Miles Peyton Femi Olukoya Work time otherwise Brittany out
February 26 Week 7	Assignment 2 (Puppeteering) due (uploaded to box) Critique Assignment 2 Andrew Edwards - Ricardo Tucker Katherine Cao - Yuanzhou Ha Mercedes Reyes - Jessica Medenbach Ariana Daly - Louise Zhang Katrina Chaudoin - Minsun Park Rhyse McLean - Anna Henson - Orianna Green Rhea Nayyar - Xiaoguang (Gary) Zhu Catherine Luo - Miles Peyton Work time otherwise Assignment 3 (Motion Capture) out Assignment 3 Teams Rhyse McLean rmclean - Ariana Daly acdaly Miles Peyton mpeyton - Anna Henson ahenson Ricardo Tucker rftucker - Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Katherine Cao katheric - Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb Andrew Edwards aeedward - Femi Olukoya oolukoya Orianna Green ogreen - Minsun Park minsunp Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh - Louise Zhang fz2 Catherine Luo catheril - Mercedes Reyes mreyes Gary Zhu xiaoguaz - Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi	Finish Crit of Assignment 2: Femi Olukoya Examples from Assignment 3: The Dancing Tree: Are we really meant to be together? Skype Calls Deformed Character Studies Animations: Oral Fixations End of Code Demo of getting mocap onto a character (Spencer) Work time otherwise
March 5 Week 8	Animations: Unplugged: A Real-Time Interactive Short Made with Mixamo Face Plus Gallery Invasion Viewing of 3D animation (Jim) Examples of SBS 3D Animation: Les Pyramides d'Egypte Supinfocom 3D Scrat - Collision Course Blue Sky 3D Active/Passive - Roller Coaster Marchinima Tutorials: SBS rendering in Maya with Arnold SBS AfterEffects Tutorial Another SBS AfterEffects Tutorial Work time otherwise	Animations: Pottery as a Zoetrope Copenhagen Cycles (video, 2006) Eric Dyer Life Size Zoetrope Mark Simon Hewis Individual project reviews (with instructors or TAs) Jessica: 0:00 Rhyse McLean rmclean - Ariana Daly acdaly 0:20 Andrew Edwards aeedward - Femi Olukoya oolukoya 0:40 Gary Zhu xiaoguaz - Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Jim: 0:00 Orianna Green ogreen - Minsun Park minsunp 0:20 Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh - Louise Zhang fz2 0:40 Miles Peyton mpeyton - Anna Henson ahenson Spencer and Brittany: 0:00 Katherine Cao katheric - Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb 0:20 Catherine Luo catheril - Mercedes Reyes mreyes 0:40 Ricardo Tucker rftucker - Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Work time otherwise
March 12	spring break midterm grades due	spring break
March 19 Week 9	Animations Marilyn Myller stop motion by Mikey Please DESCENT (desktop performance) Peter Burr, Mark Fingerhut, and Forma jkh out	Open Mike: Pitch of final projects Each student has three minutes
March 26 Week 10	Assignment 3 (Motion Capture) due (uploaded to box) Critique Assignment 3 Rhyse McLean rmclean - Ariana Daly acdaly Miles Peyton mpeyton - Anna Henson ahenson Katherine Cao katheric - Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh - Louise Zhang fz2 Discussion of Final Projects and Teams Team #1 (Offering (formerly RMM Carwash)): Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Miles Peyton mpeyton Mercedes Reyes mreyes Team #2 (Papercut Strut): Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Minsun Park minsunp Rhyse McLean rmclean Team #3 (Prounen): Andrew Edwards aeedward Katherine Cao katheric Ariana Daly acdaly Orianna Green ogreen Team #4 (Room of Life): Louise Zhang fz2 Gary Zhu xiaoguaz Femi Olukoya oolukoya Yuanzhou Ha yuanzhoh Team #5 (Slowdanger): Anna Henson ahenson Ricardo Tucker rftucker Jessica Medenbach jmmedenb Catherine Luo catheril	Finish critique of Assignment 3 Andrew Edwards aeedward - Femi Olukoya oolukoya Orianna Green ogreen - Minsun Park minsunp Catherine Luo catheril - Mercedes Reyes mreyes Ricardo Tucker rftucker - Rhea Nayyar rnayyar Gary Zhu xiaoguaz - Katrina Chaudoin kchaudoi Animations OH HISSE Hikaru Yamakawa The Pearl Work time otherwise
April 2 Week 11	Animations: In the Air is Christopher Gray: by Felix Massie Blanche Fraise by Frederick Tremblaya Work time on Final Projects otherwise	Animations: Brunettes Shoot Blondes - Knock Knock (Official Video) Music on 14 Apple Screens San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam Individual project reviews (with instructors or TAs) Jessica and Brittany 0:00 Slowdanger 0:20 Papercut Strut 0:40 Room of Life Jim and Spencer 0:00 Offering 0:20 Prounen Work time otherwise
April 9 Week 12	Animations: The Box The Box Making of Whole Den Danske Filmskole Work time otherwise	Animations: Projections in the Forest Making of Projections in the Forest Nina Paley Embroidermation: Tree of Life Embroidermation test 2 CHAD GADYA Individual project reviews (with instructors or TAs) Jessica and Brittany 0:00 Slowdanger 0:20 Papercut Strut 0:40 Room of Life Jim and Spencer 0:00 Offering 0:20 Prounen Work time otherwise
April 16 Week 13	Group critiques (whole class, graded) Grading Criteria: All team members contributing Level of risk that project will not be completed Narrative/concept clearly conveyed Initial prototypes for crucial technical elements completed Order for Crit: Offering Room of Life Prounen Papercut Strut Slowdanger	Animations: Life Line - Életvonal by Tomek Ducki The Wound by Anna Budanova Work time otherwise
April 23 Week 14	Animations: Who Am I and What Do I Want? by David Shringley and Chris Shepherd Tad's Nest by Petra Freeman Work time otherwise jkh out	Animations: Belly Julia Pott 38-39°C Kangmin Kim Logorama Marc Altshuler - Human Music Work time otherwise jkh out
April 30 Week 15	Animations: Together Universal Everything Place 3D Visualization of Place Figures of Speech Individual project reviews (with instructors or TAs) Jessica and Spencer 0:00 Offering 0:20 Prounen Jim and Brittany 0:00 Slowdanger 0:20 Papercut Strut 0:40 Room of Life Work time otherwise	Animations: Subconscious Password Chris Landreath The Itching Dianne Bellino and Adam Davies Work time otherwise
May 4	Exam week	Exam Week
Final exam slot	Final Presentations during final exam slot (graded) May 15, 2017 09:00am-11:30am Order for final presentation: Prounen Slowdanger Offering Room of Life Papercut Strut	End of Semester

Other Animations of Interest

• Caleb Wood
• The Dog Who Was A Cat Inside - Passion Pictures (Issue 144, SIGGRAPH '03)
• East End Zombies (SIGGRAPH 2005 Electronic Theater Issue 150)
• Ersatz (Surogat)
• Learn Cut-Out Animation with Terry Gilliam
• Darkness Light Dark Jan Svankmajer
• Bottom Feeder Matt Reynolds PLUS
• Quasi at the Quackadero Sally Cruikshank
• Tell Tale Heart UPA 1954
• Brother's Quay
• Re (Official Music Video) from Erased Tapes Nils Frahm
• Dr Breakfast stephen p neary